PPE Starter Kit

This starter kit has everything you need to quickly set up an automated system for identifying and monitoring workers wearing personal protection equipment (PPE). The system includes an UP AI CORE X embedded within an UP Squared fanless PC (Intel Atom X7-E3950 SoC, 8 GB memory, 64 GB eMMC, 2 x 2 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), an UP USB 3.0 HD camera with 3.6 mm lens, a power supply, and a one-year subscription to Cortexica's PPE Monitoring software.

Orders placed now ship Mar 31, 2019.

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$679

Retail Starter Kit

This starter kit has everything you need to quickly set up an automated system for identifying and monitoring retail settings for customer identity, behavior, and demographics in a GDPR-compliant way. The system includes an UP AI CORE X embedded within an UP Squared fanless PC (Intel Atom X7-E3950 SoC, 8 GB memory, 64 GB eMMC, 2 x 2 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), an UP USB 3.0 HD camera with 3.6 mm lens, a power supply, and a one-year subscription to AIM2's Retail Suite software.

UP AI CORE X is a complete product line of neural network accelerators
for edge devices. Whether the automation you are creating is for
identifying and tallying items in a shopping cart, alerting airport
security to unattended luggage, or monitoring traffic congestion ahead
of an autonomous vehicle, the AI CORE X let’s you embed the real-time
computational power you need directly where you need it.

Step Out of the Rain

Cloud computing is great for many things, but not for real-time edge
applications with tight latency, bandwidth, security, and reliability
constraints. Sometimes, the only solution is to co-locate the
processing of data with the collection of data. This means no cloud
computing. Thankfully, the skies are clearing. With up to four
trillion operations per second (TOPS) and a Neural Compute Engine
capable of delivering up to one TOPS, all with just a few watts of
power, AI CORE X is perfect for doing the heavy lifting in any edge
application.

Neural Compute Engine

The AI CORE X is powered by the recently released Intel® Movidius™
Myriad™ X, a third-generation
vision processing unit (VPU) that is the first in its class to include
a Neural Compute Engine – a dedicated hardware accelerator for deep
neural networks, trainable with industry-standard tools.

Easily Embeddable

AI CORE X is available with one or two Myriad X chips in a variety of
form factors. With your choice of MiniCard/mPCIe, M.2 2230, M.2
2242, M.2 2280, or a custom form factor, embedding deep learning
capabilities has never been easier.

Features & Specifications

Common to All Models

Chipset

Movidius™ Myriad™ X 2485

Onboard memory

4 Gbits LPDDR4

Extras

GPIO reset

Shipping

Free worldwide shipping

Variations Between Models

AI Core X

AI Core XM 2230

AI Core XM 2242

AI Core XM 2280

AI Vision Plus X

Form Factor

mPCIe

M.2 2230 E key

M.2 2242 B+M key

M.2 2280 M+B key

credit-card-sized

Myriad X SoCs

1

1

1

2

3

Dimensions

51 x 30 mm

22 x 30 mm

24 x 42 mm

22 x 80 mm

90 x 56.5 mm

Thermal

Fan-less heatsink

Fan-less heatsink

Fan-less heatsink

Heatsink with active fan

Heatsink with active fan

Price

$94*

$94*

$94*

$144*

$259*

*Includes free worldwide shipping

AI CORE X

AI CORE X

AI CORE XM

AI CORE XM M.2 2230, M.2 2242, M.2 2280

Vision Plus X

Vision Plus X

Development Kits

It takes more than hardware to deliver an AI project, and working with our
partners who are pioneers in deep learning, we are able to develop algorithms
that address different scenarios within different industry sectors.

By choosing UP AI Edge, you get more than just a hardware platform. The whole
ecosystem is at your service, helping you to achieve your goals.

Working in partnership with AIM2 and Cortexica, our AI Development Kits assist both retailers,
health and safety professionals develop proof of concepts along with full blown AI applications
ready for live deployment.

Once your application or proof of concept is ready for deployment, AIM2 offers a professional
version* of the UP board, UP Squared, and UP Core. With Neural Homogeneous Identities (NHI)
enabled, MQTT connector and can accept more than 2000 identities

If you are ready to introduce AI into your workplace for PPE compliance, Cortexica’s team of
experts will identifying a set of requirements for a custom solution.

*It is also possible to upgrade your Retail Suite with AIM2 to a professional version after your deployment.

UP Squared AI Edge –Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) by Cortexica

Real-time video analysis with advanced algorithms and machine learning to ensure employees are wearing the correct PPE for their working environment.
REST API receives an image over HTTP together with a JSON specifying optional parameters
Detection of “Personal Protective Equipment”, “Face”, “Person”, and “Body parts”.
Accepting up to 10 requests before it times out for 180 seconds
Made for Proof of Concept

Manufacturing Plan

UP is a brand owned by AAEON Europe, which is one of the ASUS group’s
associated companies. In the past, we’ve successfully manufactured and
delivered products very similar to the AI CORE X, including its
predecessor UP products. Production of AI CORE X will be carried out
at our AAEON Technology headquarters in Taiwan, which has produced UP
board, UP Squared, UP Core, UP Core Plus, and UP AI Edge for us. We
are confident in the mass manufacturing process once the design is
finalized.

Shipping & Fulfillment

Free worldwide shipping is included with all orders. All shipments
will be dispatched from AAEON Europe in the the Netherlands. Tracking numbers will be provided with all shipments. See The Crowd
Supply Guide for more information about ordering, paying, and
shipping.

All the products from this Crowd Supply campaign will be available at
UP Shop once the campaign ends. There is an UP Marketplace at UP Shop
where we welcome everyone to sell their hardware, software, or
market-ready solutions powered by UP.

Risks & Challenges

We have been working with the Intel Movidius chips since the Myriad 2
generation, and we have accumulated a lot of experience with their
different hardware design options. We already have a couple of
engineering samples in mPCIe and M.2 2280 form factors, and we should
be able to quickly complete the remaining AI CORE X hardware design.

The AI CORE X design will benefit greatly from what we learned from
working with the Myriad 2, especially when it comes to the thermal
design. The chip itself consumes 3 watts of power, and we have to give
it a proper heatsink to dissipate the heat and avoid
throttling. That’s why we decided to include an active fan on the AI
CORE XM2 2280 and Vision Plus X. We believe we are going to spend some
time in thermal optimization in this project.

The development software is also a key. Intel will upgrade its
OpenVINO toolkit to support Myriad X and UP team is working closely
with Intel to fully test our platform with their software. The release
date of the updated OpenVINO toolkit will also impact the release date
of AI Core X series.

UP is a brand owned by AAEON Europe, which is one of the ASUS group's associated companies. In order to differentiate the market and fit in a different business model, we decided to have an UP garage team. The team aims to provide an embedded product, including hardware and software, to both professional makers and industrial markets. Today we have more than 5,000 users at UP Community and 7,000 shoppers at UP Shop.